The most polished Dragon Ball Z on SNES, with huge sprites and two plane vertical combat. A real treat for DBZ fighting fans.
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Fighting1 player12+
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DBZ versus fighting game featuring the most iconic fighters from the Cell and Buu arcs. Published by Bandai, released in France in 1996. Eight characters including SS2 Gohan, Cell and Buu, split-screen combat with flying ki attacks, cinematic supers and story mode. The finest entry in the DBZ Super Butouden series on Super Nintendo.
Dragon Ball Z - Hyper Dimension review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Bandai gives this last instalment on the machine very large fighting sprites, faithful to Akira Toriyama's drawing down to the rendering of the hair. The most violent exchanges throw the opponent through the scenery, switching plane outright, and the dialogue panels borrow from comic book layout.
The score adopts the orchestral register of the animated series, transposed for the console's chip: brass on the attack, held strings for the power ups, heavy percussion at the moment of impact. Each fighter receives an identifiable theme, and the transformation sequences are given musical treatment of their own.
An exclusively French PAL SNES edition of the 1996 Bandai fighter, one of the very few SFC games translated only into French on the PAL side and never distributed in other European languages. This linguistic specificity makes it a strong identity piece for French-speaking collectors, and PAL boxed CIB in the original cardboard box with French manual trades at elevated levels. The cote climbs hard, lifted by the double regional and linguistic rarity.
Is Dragon Ball Z - Hyper Dimension still worth playing in 2026?
Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension remains the peak of DBZ versus fighting on the Super Famicom. The massive sprites, the vertical two plane combat, the signature combos and the readability of special moves place this title above most licensed brawlers of its era. The roster stays sensible but every character is handled with care. For Dragon Ball lovers and 16 bit versus fans, probably the priority cartridge on the system.
